Here are the Letter Boxed August 17, 2025 Answers from New York Times Games. Our solutions and answers are 100% valid and accurate. We suggest trying to solve the game on your own before using the help of our website.
Sides of this Letter Box are:
HKGTBNAUOIML
The answers are:
THINGAMABOBBULK
THINGAMABOB-BULK
*KOHA-AMBULATING
*KOHA good in OED
*HOGUM-MULTIBANK*
*HOGUM good in Wiktionary
*MULTIBANK good in Merriam-Webster
THUNKING-GAMBOL
TALKATHON-NUMBING
THUMBING-GOLAKTALU*
*GOLAKTALU good in Wiktionary
KINGBOLT-THINGUMABOB
*THUMBKIN-NOGAL*
*THUMBKIN good in Collins, Wiktionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
*NOGAL good in OED
MONOBATH-HULKING
KOHANGA-AMBULATION
KINGBOLT-THUMA*
*THUMA good in OED
Yes! Got THUNKING GAMBOL quickly. Didn’t even see thingamabob….
Thunking Gambol it is!
Don’t like it, but I’ll take the win! 😞
My thoughts exactly!
Thunking Gambol
Noises in the night
thunking – gambol as well
Me too … THUNKING-GAMBOL.
Who’da THUNK it?
*BLUNKING-GAMOTH*
*BLUNKING good in OED
*GAMOTH good in OED
*THINGUMBOB-BALK
*THINGUMBOB good in OED
INKBLOT-THINGUMABOB
*BLOKI-INHUMATING*
*BLOKI good in Wiktionary
*INHUMATING good in OED
I had KOHA-AMBULATING also!
I tried HOKA first but it is actually spelled HOOKAH 🤣. Then I tried KOHA for fun and it was accepted. I found out koha is a gift or donation.
I can’t believe i missed THINGAMABOB!!
Same. I found AMBULATING and played around with the remaining letters to find KOHA and it was accepted.
HULKING-GAMBIT. Thought for sure it had to be the OA. Much more efficient…
..haha oops missed the o… back soon.
You put the O in your pocket?
🤣
KOHA accepted in LB too.
TALKATHON – NUMBING
Me too
TALKATHON NUMBING
Same here talkathon-numbing
I wish I found TALKATHON. Been trying for -THON words but failed.
TALKATHON – NUMBING
Yes dear, whatever you say.
Haaaahaaaa. Yes, wonderful TI with that pairing.
🤣🤣
Thingumabob blank
Did not think that word would be accepted.
Same – and they took both spellings!
THINGUMABOB – BLANK
Which is when I use it in a sentence.
LOL
OA very quickly after trying ‘ambulating’ and ‘Batiking’.
OA.
OA.
Thinking gambol
Thunking gambol
THUNKING GAMBOL
It feels good to have a 2-word solution after many recent failure’s. Got it quickly too.
Me too! I usually agonize over it and then give in on 3! Got thinking gambol quickly today.:)
THINGAMABOB-BULK (OA) after noodling around with lambkin and inkblot
Bulking-Gotham*
I know Gotham is not acceptable, but I had to try to give Batman more support.
I tried GOTHAM too… 😄
Spend a lot of time with kingmaking, thumbing, and other words ending with ing. I was trying to make gumbo work. Ended up finding talkathon – numbing.
KOHA — AMBULATING
Found AMBULATING and just tried different combinations of the remainders. I have never seen/used KOHA, but it’s a solve.
Looked at BOINKING, THUMBING, NATIONAL, BOMBING, THINKING, etc.
Almost the exact route I took, although I stumbled onto AMBULATION first and KOHA AMBULATION was just a few steps away!
I feel like they’re just messing with us with THINGAMABOB.
BTW KOHA is a New Zealand Māori word for gift or offering.
I started with MULTINATIONAL, really wanted it to work, yet didn’t progress further.
Then landed on TALKATHON – NUMBING.
THUNKING GAMBOL
Ray Bolger dancing in Wizard of Oz?
BLANKING GUM MOTH
And MULTIBANKING* GOTH
*shows up in books on economics, dataprocessing and architecture
OA
Thunking gambol -just what I saw in first couple of minutes-cannot be the OA! So,look more.
Thumbing golak(W) Sikh
GOT OA – THINGAMABOB – BULK (What a way to start the week!)
Was about to give up with 3w (kept getting one letter short with Thumb Blanking, Thanking Gumbo etc), either THANKING GLOB BUM, or better TI with THANKING GLUM MOB, when I found TALKATHON NUMBING for a 2w solution. Whew! Wasn’t even sure Talkathon would be accepted. No way I would’ve thought of Thingamabob
I spent a long time on this today but couldn’t solve it. My closest were also THUMB-BLANKING and THANKING-GUMBO! I would never have thought of “words” like TALKATHON or THINGAMABOB anyway.
Koha ambulating. Ugh!
Ohm multi banking (MW) And multi banking goth OA hunt going to have to be put off till later, maybe work with multinational and others. Looking forward to others solves after a while
THINGUMABOB BLANKING.
Had BLANKING first then went in search (yes using a word finder) for a word using my unused letters and ending with B. Didn’t think to eliminate the ING from BLANKING and did not see possibility of BULK. Was too astonished to find the first word to go looking for anything else.
Actually came up with MULTINATIONAL first but ws unable to go on from there.
Wow, great word! I never saw anything like thst.
Talkathon and Numb my wife got this
Today’s answer a new low for NYT
Thingumabob blank
THUNKING / GAMBOL
Don’t think I was going to see thingumanob today.usually would have seen talkathon, but didn’t. One of those days Sam messed with us.even looked for yiddish. Still, a good many solves besides the OA.
Had ambulating and put hoka in front—not accepted. Hoka is a Māori word that means “to fly over the earth”. Hubby loves his Hoka shoes.
Settled for HOT – TALKING – GUMBO
BULKING – GOTHAM — HAHAHAHA Love it!!
Too bad proper nouns are not accepted!!!